Re: R: Re: R: orthographical question.

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, jesse stephen bangs wrote:

> Frank George Valoczy sikayal:
>
> > > True.  I'm pretty sure that Hungarian uses i-hacek, though, and the only
> > > difference between a breve and an hacek is pointiness.  You're right,
> > > though, the i-breve would look very Romanian.  And the i-breve was used in
> > > Romanian in older (circa 1700) orthographies.  The Romanian sample at
> > > christusrex.org has a passage with breves over every vowel except o!
> > >
> >
> > Having Hungarian as my first language I can say that Hungarian does not
> > use i-hacek. I don't think I've seen that even in ancient texts.
>
> Hmmmm.  I was so sure that I'd seen it somewhere that I tracked down the
> book I saw it in and found the phrase: 'malenkii robot', written with an
> hacek over the second 'i'.  The book, BTW, is _The Man Who Loved Only
> Numbers_ about Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos (double-acute on the
> 'o'), and the quote is on page 103.  Just so I can be verified :-).
>
Well, that's not in Hungarian. =)

My guess is that it is a transliteration from Russian.

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Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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